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Train chaos – Heathrow expansion – Grayling must go!

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‘THE ONLY reason that the secretary of state (Chris Grayling) is at the dispatch box today is that the Prime Minister is too weak...

MUBARAK GO NOW! – –Millions of Egyptians pour onto the streets

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MASSES of Egyptians flooded into Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday, responding to the calls for a million-strong march to demand the removal of President Mubarak. Simultaneously,...

Bankrupt Budget!

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In his first budget, Chancellor Darling hit the working class and middle class with big hikes in alcohol, tobacco and vehicle taxes while giving...

Tens Of Thousands March Against Athens Riot Police

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TENS of thousands of school and university students demonstrated last Friday in Athens and in all Greek major cities against the oppression and violence...

END PFI NOW! – demands Unison as mass hospital closures threaten

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THREE London hospitals face the threat of immediate closure as a result of PFI-induced bankruptcy, it emerged yesterday. In the first case of its kind,...
Over 100,000 Greek workers marched on April 2 during their general strike

WORLD REVOLUTION – the only answer to the capitalist crisis

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THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world. Under the conditions of the greatest...

PROSECUTE THE POLICE DEATH SQUAD – say Jean Charles de Menezes family

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A cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, the young Brazilian electrician murdered by Metropolitan Police CO 19 firearms officers, yesterday demanded those responsible ‘must face...

Junior doctors out of their depth – Forced to make end-of-life decisions during pandemic

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MANY junior doctors feel out of their depth with the end-of-life decisions faced during Covid-19 pandemic In normal times, end-of-life care discussions are most commonly...

Fierce Clashes In Hebron!

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ISRAELI forces opened fired with live ammunition on a protest in Hebron yesterday hitting at least ten Palestinians. The ‘rally of anger’ erupted into fierce...
Doctors at the British Medical Association Annual Representative Meeting in June voting to keep privateers out of the NHS

PRIVATE CENTRE ‘RISKED PATIENTS’ SAFETY’ – alleges GP

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A privately-run NHS walk-in centre has been forced to launch a probe after complaints by a doctor about the safety of patients were...
Young people defiantly lobby the TUC Congress. They insist that they are not going to work for nothing and are demanding a general strike

‘Coalition making life hell for workers & youth’

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YOUTH unemployment increased by 15,000 during the three months to June, reaching 973,000. ‘The coalition is making life hell for youth and it must be...

100 killed in Donetsk! – after Kiev forces attack on airport

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OVER 100 have been killed, including 50 members of local self-defence forces and just over the same number of civilians, in clashes with pro-Kiev...

Free the Filton 24 hunger strikers! says Greta Thunberg

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'The entire world is watching,’ Greta Thunberg told a 50-strong rally for the Filton 24 hunger strikers on Saturday night. The rally was held at...
Junior doctors won mass public support when they took to the streets in their thousands in March after the introduction of MTAS and MMC ‘reforms’ caused chaos

PATIENTS’ SAFETY AT RISK! – warn consultants and junior doctors

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Leading consultants and junior doctors have warned that the medical training crisis is risking patient safety as the NHS faces upheaval on August 1st...
Tuesday morning outside Westminster Central Hall demonstrators urged the PCT meeting ‘don’t close our hospitals’ – the PCT board however agreed to do the dirty work for the Tories

Unions must stop A&E closures! – four North West London A&Es face shutdown

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‘WE’LL do whatever it takes to save our hospitals,’ GMB National Officer for the NHS Rehana Azam told News Line yesterday. She was responding to...

Nigeria–Oil Shutdown Starts

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The general strike in Nigeria entered its fifth day yesterday, as talks between President Goodluck Jonathan and trade union leaders failed to end the...

Midwives angry over pensions attack

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MIDWIVES remain angry over the government’s attack on public sector pensions, warned the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday. Jon Skewes, director of employment...
CWU branch secretaries and area reps at Friends Meeting House in London yesterday

Royal Mail Deal Sell-Out!

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‘IT’S A bad deal. I think it should be thrown out.’ That was the reaction of one delegate, Tam Dewar from Scotland, after a national...

P&O SACKS 800! – RMT instructs crews to stay on board and refuse to...

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P&O FERRIES has fired 800 seafaring staff with immediate effect. However, crews defied orders and refused to leave their ships, as their union the...

Nurses pay cut plan a ‘death knell’ for Truss!

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TORY leadership candidate Liz Truss was forced into a humiliating U-Turn yesterday, after saying in a ‘hustings’ meeting on Monday night that, as Prime...
Lecturers and students marching on May 5th from Kings College University against cuts

UCU demand a pensions ballot

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SEVENTY-ONE investment staff at the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) shared bonus payments of £2.89m in the year to the end of March 2010. The...
Riot police brought into the centre of Paris to confront an uprising by youth against the CPE cheap labour law that had to be abandoned by the government

YOUTH FOR REVOLUTION! – in Paris and Athens

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FRENCH university and high school students were called on to make this Thursday, November 22, a day of strikes and demonstrations against the law...

Hamas demands that US must support the state of Palestine

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THE Hamas Movement has called on the US administration to rescind its proposals for Palestinian displacement and alternative homelands that align with Israeli plans...

TORTURE! MURDER! & tens of thousands displaced in Cameron’s ‘free Libya’

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Armed militias operating across Libya are committing widespread human rights abuses with impunity, warned Amnesty International in a new report released yesterday. The report, Militias...

March of the 4-year-olds demands no test

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SOME of the youngest protesters ever rose up yesterday in the ‘march of the four-year-olds!’ where over 200 parents accompanied an army of children...

Big Workers Protest As Netanyahu & Tories Meet

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ON FRIDAY, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street in central London to protest the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was...

A BLOODBATH ON EVERY CORNER’ – Iraq puppets had licence to murder

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THERE was a ‘bloodbath on every corner’ in Iraq, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told a press conference in London on Saturday. Website Wikileaks has revealed...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers demand the end of the  sell-out ‘Compromise Agreement’ on their march in Southall earlier this month

Only 137 have signed ‘Compromise’ deal

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LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line yesterday were determined that they will win their struggle to return to their jobs on their...
Section of the hundreds of depositors who were queuing outside Northern Rock bank in Harrow yesterday

Brown And Darling Are ‘Gambling With Our Money!’

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QUEUES of worried and angry savers continued outside Northern Rock banks yesterday. At the Harrow branch many queuers told News Line that they did not...

Labour to win by-elections – Tories in huge NHS crisis

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VOTERS in both the Stoke-on-Trent and Copeland by-elections go to the polls today to elect new MPs for the seats held by Labour at...
Ten thousand students marched through central London last month demanding the restoration of free education

Warwick students sprayed with CS gas

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STUDENTS demanding the abolition of tuition fees, who had occupied Senate House at the University of Warwick on Wednesday afternoon, were sprayed in...

1.5 MILLION IN TAHRIR SQUARE – Mubarak’s bags being packed

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Millions of Egyptians converged on Cairo’s Tahrir Square and massed in the cities of Alexandria, Port Suez and Luxor yesterday, which they had dubbed...
Civil servants demonstrating outside parliament against wage cuts and mass sackings by the Brown government

HUGE JOBLESS RISE! – warning of 3 million unemployed

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The number of unemployed people in the UK rose by another 164,000 between June and August, to 1.79 million, according to the latest government...
DAVE PRENTIS, BMA Chair MARK PORTER and TUC leader FRANCES O’GRADY behind the cheque for £1.5bn unpaid overtime

Prentis pledges mass campaign against pay freeze

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DOCTORS’ leaders, Unison general secretary Dave Prentis and TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady joined paramedics, nurses, midwives and physiotherapists in a protest outside the...

Unite launch nine-day ‘ghost strike’ against 24% pay cut

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BRITISH Airways Cargo workers begin nine days of strike action on Christmas Day, however their union, Unite, has called off all pickets. Under BA’s fire...

NHS 111 ‘an abject failure’

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THE Coalition’s privately-run flagship ‘NHS 111’ service was thrown into disarray yesterday, when NHS Direct announced it is to pull out. NHS 111 is run...
Marchers with busworkers Unite union official John Hughes just before the march began on October 30 in Manchester

‘Smash Fees Restore Free State Education!’

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education set off early yesterday for the latest leg from Stoke to Stafford. Hitting the road...

Fight Honda Sackings

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THE Unite union yesterday called Honda’s decision to cut 800 jobs at its Swindon plant a ‘hammer blow’ to UK manufacturing and the local...

Ambulance staff at breaking point

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AMBULANCE staff are at breaking point, with the union Unison raising the alarm yesterday that services are facing unprecedented 999 call volumes and unsustainable...
Health workers march through the centre of London to defend the National Health Service

Decide on action to defeat Tory NHS Bill – urges BMA London Regional Assembly

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London doctors have made it clear they are opposed to the government’s plan to slash and privatise the NHS – and want action to...

‘AN ACT OF WAR!’ – Olmert threatens the Lebanon

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ISRAELI prime minister Ehud Olmert yesterday called the capture of two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border by Hezbollah an ‘act of war’. Olmert threatened...
Thatcher’s law at work – miner lies badly injured at Maltby in September 1984. He had been battered by police forces sent up from London to attack miners picket lines

Thatcher funeral–a state of siege!

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THATCHER’S state funeral on April 17, is to be a Tory state provocation of the working class. Her coffin is to be carried through the...
Kherson engineering workers have called on workers throughout the Ukraine to support their struggle

Kherson workers occupy – call for workers councils

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The labour collective occupying the Kherson engineering factory has issued a decree appealing to the ‘Workers of Ukraine’. The decree says: ‘We understand that we...
Gate Gourmet workers from Dusseldorf and Heathrow  join together to protest outside Texas Pacific offices – the parent company acific

Gg Dusseldorf Strikers In London Today

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers, at Heathrow Airport, are welcoming Gate Gourmet striking workers, from Dusseldorf Airport in Germany, to London today. The British Gate Gourmet...